By Marianne Y (Marianne) on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 08:27 pm:
For those of you who are Gmail users, you might want to go back and strengthen your passwords. Apparently, some Chinese hackers have broken into some Gmail accounts, including personal mail accounts. Now might be a good time to strengthen your passwords, to keep them out of yours. Longer passwords, of say 8 or more characters, mixed with numbers, and/or mixing upper and lower case letters with other characters, like punctuation might be a good idea. Just don't forget your password, because you have to re-enter it periodically. I learned another way you can make your account more secure today, which is Google's 2-step verification process, that involves your phone. I still have to think about the second one for myself, so for now, I just went back and strengthened my password. The last think we need is ID theft from foreign governments or other foreign operations!